Parachute-kite.



W. A. BOOHAU. PARACHUTE KITE. APPLICATION FILED MAIL3, 1913.

1,086,888. Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

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WILLIAMQA. BOCHAU, or. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

rAaAoHnTn-Kmn Application filed March 3, 1913. Seriallio. 751,684.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WiLLIAM BogiHAU,

a citizen of the. United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Parachute-Kites, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a parachute kite or aerial toy.

' The object of the invention is to provide a novelcombination that shall include an inclined cord or wire, such as the string of a kite, up which a parachute or other toy device may travel, novel means to travel when ascending the cord or wire and support the toy device in its ascent, and a releasing d'evice revoluble on the cord or wire in proxa parachute,

imity to its high end to detach the traveler from the cord or wire and allow the parachute or other toy to go free in the air.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which,

Figural is a view of a cord stretched in aninclined position and having the revoluble releaser, and showing a parachute pendant from the cord as it is while ascendin Fig. 2 is a view on a larger scale of the cor the revoluble releaser, and the traveling hanger. Fig. 3 is another view of the same parts seen in Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a detached view of the traveling hanger. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on a larger scale of the revoluble releaser, on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3;

The numeral, 6, designates a cord or wire stretched in an inclined-position as it would be when the high end is attached to a kite and serving as the guide for an elevated kite, 7. Of course a cord or wire would have this inclined position were the high end of the cord or wire attached to a high building or a tower.

A hanger, 8, having at its lower end an eye or loop, 9, .to support whatever may be attached, such as slips of printed advertising matter, a written message, toy balloons,

its upper end a notch-shaped bend, 10, that takes over the stretched cord, 6, and the notch bend permits the loop-end, 9, to hang pendant below the cord while it travels upward on the cord. The upper part of thls hanger issuitably bent to form a pin, 11,.

that projects forward in a direction corresponding to the upgrade of the stretched cord or wire.

The cord or wire, 6, is provided near its or other device, also has nearhigh end with a revolubledevice having an axis in continuous alinement with the said cord or wire the axis remaining stationary and serving as a shaft around which the device will revolve by the action of .the wind. This revoluble device serves to re-' lease or detach the hanger or traveler, 8, from the cord or wire, 6, and whatever happens to besupported by the said hanger is allowed to drop. or go free in the air The revoluble releasing device comprises Specification of Letters Patent. H Patented F6b.1@, i914.

a metal shaft, 12, being a straight piece of wire having an eye, 13, formed at each of its ends; the stretched cord, 6, is cut a short distance from its high end, or from the kite, if a kite is being used (say about twenty feet from a kite) and the cut ends of the cord are tied .to the two eyes, 18, of the wire shaft, 12. Thus the wire shaft is in perfect alinement with thecord, and consti tutes a metal section of a fibrous cord. In practice a cord will sometimes twist up and then untwist which is objectionable because -thereleased' device revolves and to prevent twisting or turning of the metal wire shaft, 12, one endthereof is provided with an arm, 14, secured to one of the eyes, 13, and said arm hangs downward below the stretched cord and serves as a pendant weight which prevents the wire shaft, 12, from turning. The form or shape of the pendant weight arm, 14, may vary; in the present instance it is V-shaped, one end of the two prongs beinghooked into the eye, 18, of the wireshaft, 12, that is next to the upgrade part of the cord, and the end of the other prong hooked over the cord, 6,that part of the cord that is upgrade or nearest to the kite. The revoluble part of the releaser consists of two spiraled or'twisted wings or blades, 15, similar to a propeller, that are joined to a central sleeve, 16, that fits loosely on the wire-shaft, 12; the two wings and the sleeve turn on the shaft. That end of the sleeve" that is next to the downwardly-inclined part of the stretched cord, 6, is forked or has two tangs, 17 which are spaced apart sufficiently to turn freely around the eye, 13. This forked or tang end, 1.7, of the revoluble releaser knoc ks sidewise against the pin, 11," that projects forward from the approaching traveling hanger, 8, and the effect of this sidewise knock is to detach the notchshaped bend, 10, from the cord, 6, and there- 110 upon the hanger and parachute, 18, or whateverthehanger. may have been supporting,

the stretched cord by the operator and the parachute, 18, or any other desired article, suspended by a cord, 19, from the loop-end, 9, of thehanger. The wind moving toward the kite will cause the pendant hanger and the parachute to slide or travel upward along the stretched cord until the pin, 11, of hanger is knocked by tangs 17, of the revoluble releaser. I

Having thus described my'inverition what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination of an inclined stretched cord; a'nietal wire shaft in alinement with said cord and constituting a metal section of the cord; a weight arm,

14, hanging pendant from said metal sec-- tion; a. releaser device having spiraled blades and revoluble on the metal section; and a traveler having at its upper part a notch-shaped bendto take over the stretched cord, and below the cord said traveler hava releaser device revoluble on said wire shaft by the action of the wind.

3. The combination of an inclined stretched cord; ahanger having a notch-f' shaped bend to take over said stretched cord and the upper part, of said hanger havinga pin that dprojectsin a direction upgrade on said cor and below the cord said hanger having a pendant end for supporting articles; and the high end of the stretched cord provided with means to knock s'idewise against the said pin on the hanger and release the hanger from the cord.

inclined stretched cor-d; a metal wire shaft in aline-.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature? in'presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. -BOCHAU. Witnesses G. FERD. Voer, CHAS. B. MANN. 

